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Rust Requires Chilkat v10.1.2+

Yahoo Mail OAuth2 Access Token for Desktop App

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Demonstrates how to get a Yahoo Email OAuth2 access token from a desktop application or script.

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// First, you must define your app in Yahoo Developer (https://developer.yahoo.com/apps/) like this:

// image

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

let oauth2 = chilkat::OAuth2::new();

// Your applicaton must use your own public web server as an intermediate
// to receive and forward the redirect to localhost.
// See Using Your Web Server as an Intermediary for OAuth2 Redirect to localhost
oauth2.set_app_callback_url("https://yourwebserver.com/oauth_redirect");
oauth2.set_listen_port(3017);

oauth2.set_authorization_endpoint("https://api.login.yahoo.com/oauth2/request_auth");
oauth2.set_token_endpoint("https://api.login.yahoo.com/oauth2/get_token");

// Replace these with actual values.
oauth2.set_client_id("CLIENT_ID");
oauth2.set_client_secret("CLIENT_SECRET");

// Do not send the "scope" query param for Yahoo OAuth2.
oauth2.set_uncommon_options("NO_OAUTH2_SCOPE");

// Begin the OAuth2 Authorization code flow.  This returns a URL that should be loaded in a browser.
let Ok(url) = oauth2.start_auth() else {
    println!("{}", oauth2.last_error_text());
    return;
};

println!("url = {}", url);

// Launch the default browser on the system and navigate to the url.
// The LaunchBrowser method was added in Chilkat v10.1.2.
if oauth2.launch_browser(&url).is_err() {
    println!("{}", oauth2.last_error_text());
    return;
}

// Wait for the user to approve or deny authorization in the browser.
let mut num_ms_waited = 0;
while (num_ms_waited < 90000) && (oauth2.auth_flow_state() < 3) {
    oauth2.sleep_ms(100);
    num_ms_waited = num_ms_waited + 100;
}

// If the browser does not respond within the specified time, AuthFlowState will be:
// 
// 1: Waiting for Redirect - The OAuth2 background thread is waiting for the browser's redirect request.
// 2: Waiting for Final Response - The thread is awaiting the final access token response.
// In either case, cancel the background task initiated by StartAuth.

if oauth2.auth_flow_state() < 3 {
    let _ = oauth2.cancel();
    println!("No response from the browser!");
    return;
}

// Check AuthFlowState to determine if authorization was granted, denied, or failed:
// 
// 3: Success - OAuth2 flow completed, the background thread exited, and the successful response is in AccessTokenResponse.
// 4: Access Denied - OAuth2 flow completed, the background thread exited, and the error response is in AccessTokenResponse.
// 5: Failure - OAuth2 flow failed before completion, the background thread exited, and error details are in FailureInfo.

if oauth2.auth_flow_state() == 5 {
    println!("OAuth2 failed to complete.");
    println!("{}", oauth2.failure_info());
    return;
}

if oauth2.auth_flow_state() == 4 {
    println!("OAuth2 authorization was denied.");
    println!("{}", oauth2.access_token_response());
    return;
}

if oauth2.auth_flow_state() != 3 {
    println!("Unexpected AuthFlowState:{}", oauth2.auth_flow_state());
    return;
}

// Save the full JSON access token response to a file.
let sb_json = chilkat::StringBuilder::new();
let _ = sb_json.append(&oauth2.access_token_response());
let _ = sb_json.write_file("qa_data/tokens/yahooMail.json", "utf-8", false);

// The saved JSON response looks like this:

// {
//   "access_token": "kCVQdnOdul...LHucA--",
//   "refresh_token": "AIenVXETSo0jklFBVkPS8vVm8E.Ej9ToRG.xDbDYmZ65WIs5t6CZhDrD",
//   "expires_in": 3600,
//   "token_type": "bearer",
//   "xoauth_yahoo_guid": "HGDQCVF5JB4YDOWHITQJFBHCWA"
// }

println!("OAuth2 authorization granted!");
println!("Access Token: {}", oauth2.access_token());